JAN  3  1  mi 


PRESIDENT’S  OFFICE 


MY  GIRLS  AND  1 


1. 

We  are  good,  friends,  we  are, 

My  girls  and  I; 

Such  f  riends,  with  mickle  care 
The  days  go  by. 

The  nod,  the  smile,  the  beck,  the  call. 
The  music-making  laughter,  all 
Brighten  each  corridor  and  hall. 

Girls  are  so  spry  l 

II. 

We  know  each  other  well, 

My  girls  and  I; 

This  man — too  old  to  tell — 

These  maids  so  spry. 

Oft,  rvhen  in  judgment  I  must  say 
“’Turns  naughty,”  of  some  thoughtless  way,  , 

I  smile  to  think,  in  younger  day 
Just  so  did  I. 

III. 

We  often  disagree, 

My  girls  and  I. 

How  could  it  elsewise  be 
With  girls  so  spry  f 

And  then  I  scold  and  preach,  and  they 
Just  pout  a  while  and  say,  “nay,  nay,” 
And  then  are  good  that  livelong  day, 
Those  girls  so  spry. 


IV. 

We  love  alike,  we  do, 

My  girts  and  I; 

For  they  to  right  are  true, 

Although  so  spry. 

And  should  some  real  gr  ief  distress, 

Or  burdening  sorrow  heavier  press, 

How  quick,  with  helpful  tenderness, 

My  girts  are  nigh! 

V. 

’  I1  is  sad  that,  we  must  part, 

My  girls  and  I; 

That  old  to  youthful  heart 
Must  say  good-bye. 

Yet  while  these  glad  days  come  and 
We  quaff  their  joys,  ’  lis  better  so, 
And  leave  the  morrow’s  cup  of  woe 
For  bye  and  bye. 

VI. 

One  day  these  hcdls  shall  lack 
Their  merry  glee. 

I  see  them  draped  in  black 
Because  of  me. 

And  some  will  gather  ’round  my  bier, 

And  some  dear  hearts,  once  harbored  here, 

Far  on  life’s  main  will  Conway  hear 
A  nd,  weep  a  wee. 


VII. 

I  can  but  think  that  we, 

My  girls  and  I  » 

Shall  meet  beyond  the  sea 
That,  bounds  life’ s  sky. 

For,  if  I  reckon  not  amiss, 

Cure  love  is  treasure,  e'en  in  bliss, 

And  garnered  in  that  home  from  this, 

Shcdl  never  die 


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The  Golleg  e  as  a  Home 


*T  The  official  catalogue  of  a  college  deals  chiefly  with  its  organization,  membership,  requirements  for  admission  and|  gradu¬ 
ation,  announcements  of  honors  offered  and  conferred,  of  courses  of  instruction,  terms  and  stipulations. 

"j  But  there  are  many  things  besides  these  that  parents  and  prospective  students  are  concerned  to  know.  Such  are: 

1.  The  conditions  affecting  health  and  comfort. 

2.  The  intellectual,  aesthetic  and  moral  atmosphere. 

3.  The  daily  social  life. 

*  These  are  matters  of  no  minor  importance.  For  health  must  be  protected  first  of  all,  and  comfort  is  important  for  a  young 
girl  at  this  most  delicate  and  significant  period  of  her  life;  and  just  as  the  air  we  breathe  and  the  water  we  drink  purify  us  by 
their  purity  or  defile  us  by  their  contamination,  so  the  intellectual,  aesthetic  and  spiritual  forces  which  surround  us  in  our 
college  days  are  potent  for  good  or  ill  in  all  our  future. 

Moreover,  the  opportunities  for  helpful  social  intercourse  are  not  the  least  of  the  advantages  of  a  good  college.  For  it  is  at 
college  that  the  most  important  and  lasting  friendships  are  made.  A  student  mingling  freely  with  her  fellows  gathers  what 
they  have  to  give,  forms  ties  and  begins  associations  that  are  destined,  probably,  to  affect  her  whole  future  life. 

*  To  the  enlarged  presentation  of  facts  concerning  these  three  points  at  Randolph-Macon  Woman’s  College,  this  booklet  is 
devoted. 


HISTORY 

n 

T 


That  we  may  better  understand  the  spirit  of  the  Cottage,  we  must  needs  know  something  of  its  brief  but  brilliant  history. 

Randolph-Macon  Woman’s  College  was  a  conception  of  Chancellor  Smith,  of  the  Randolph-Macon  system,  in  response  to 


a  proposition  from  business  men  of 
Lynchburg  that  a  Randolph-Macon  in-  || 

stitution  should  be  located  in  their 
city. 

In  ninety-four  days  after  the  pro- 
jedt  was  broached  to  the  citizens  of 
Lynchburg  generally,  $220,000  was  sub¬ 
scribed  for  its  execution,  and  twenty 
months  later  the  college  was  opened 
with  thirty-six  boarding  students. 

It  was  but  a  half-building,  but  in 
it  was  a  whole  college.  For  from  the 
first  it  was  determined  that  the  require¬ 
ments  for  the  A.  B.  degree  should  equal 
those  of  the  best  colleges  in  Virginia  for  men.  The  thirty-six  were  given 
true  college  work  and  required  to  measure  up  to  the  highest  standards  for 
men. 


The  third  session  the  limited  boarding  accommodations  were  filled  with 
eighty-four  students,  and  for  the  fourth  year  enlargement  was  necessary.  The  front 
was  therefore  finished,  and  in  1896  the  building  was  as  shown  on  opposite  page,  sheltering, 
one  hundred  and  thirty-four  students. 


THE  BEGINNING!  1893 


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With  this  increase  of  rooms  for  students  were  added  a  large  library  hall  and  a  laboratory  for  Physics  and  Biology.  The  Chemical  laboratory  was  enlarged 
and  its  equipment  greatly  improved.  As  the  number  of  students  increased  additional  professors  were  elected.  The  sub-collegiate  work  was  discontinued  and 
the  College  gained  place  among 
the  fourteen  classed  by  the  U.  S. 

Commissioner  of  Education  in 
“  Division  A  ”  of  the  colleges  for 
women  in  the  United  States. 

In  1899  yet  more  room  was 
needed,  and  the  buildings  were 
completed  according  to  the  origi¬ 
nal  plan  by  the  erection  of  the 
west  wing.  In  this  were  dormi¬ 
tory  accommodations  for  about 
a  hundred  students  and  separate 
laboratories  for  Physics,  Biology 
and  Psychology. 

Here  Dr.  Smith  felt  that 
he  might  rest.  The  original  con¬ 
ception  of  a  first-grade  college  for  two  hundred  boarding  students  with 

laboratories,  library,  gymnasium,  etc., offering  a  full,  strong  A.B.  course  equal  to  the  best  open  to  men 
in  Virginia,  had  been  realized.  And  yet  the  pressure  continued.  Lower  classes  were  cut  off.  Entrance 
requirements  were  raised;  the  full  standards  of  the  best  Northern  colleges  were  set  up,  and  yet  the  demand  the  completed  froxp:  isbg 

for  admission  continued  and  grew  year  by  year  ;  all  available  rooms  in  buildings  near  the  college  were  rented,  and  still 

each  year  a  large  number  of  applicants  had  to  be  declined.  Reluctantly  Dr.  Smith  yielded  to  the  spirit  of  the  age;  his  small  college  must  go.  Randolph- 


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Macon  Woman’s  College  must  step  forth  into  the  arena  of  the  great  national  colleges  for  women  and  open  her  doors  to  all  who  wished  to  enter. 

And  so,  in  1903,  “East  Hall,”  a  dormitory  accommodating  one  hundred  students,  was  added,  and  the  College  was  launched  upon  the  larger  seas.  The 
new  dormitory  was  almost  immediately  filled.  In  September,  1905,  every  room  was  engaged  and  more  than  a  hundred  late  applications  had  to  be  refused  conside¬ 
ration.  The  enrollment  was  stopped 
at  three  hundred  and  fifty  for  lack 
of  room.  But  the  College  was  now 
fully  in  the  field  and  there  could  be 
no  step  backward.  Hence  the  Trus¬ 
tees  determined  to  meet  the  demand, 
and  authorized 

“West  Hall,” 

a  duplicate  of  East  Hall,  to  be  be¬ 
gun  in  time  for  use  September,  1906. 


The  wide  and  widening  usefulness  of  the  College  attracted 
notice  and  won  friends.  Miss  Melissa  Baker,  of  Baltimore, 
the  completed  plan  willed  $7,000  for  its  work  ;  Dr.  Rolfe  Millar,  of  Front  Royal, 

established  a  scholarship  with  a  gift  of  $2,000  ;  Major  C.  V.  Winfree,  of  Lynchburg,  Virginia,  gave  an  Astronomical  Observatory;  Norfolk  College  Alumnae 
established  a  scholarship  with  $1,500,  and  in  February,  1906,  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie  offered  to  erect  a  Science  Hall  if  other  friends  would  add  $20,000  to  the 


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endowment  fund.  The  offer  was  promptly  accepted,  the 
$20,000  was  raised  in  sixty  days,  and  the  building  was 
occupied  September,  1906. 

Immediately  following  this  gift,  Mrs.  Fannie  M.  Jones, 
of  Lynchburg,  a  previous  benefactor,  offered  to  erect  a 
library  building  to  match  the  Carnegie  Hall. 


THE  PLAN  ENLARGED 


This  has  now  been  completed  and  connected  by  colonnade  to  main  building  and  West  Hall,  making  the 
completed  front  seven  hundred  feet  from  east  to  west,  as  shown  in  the  picture  following. 

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W1NFREE  OBSERVATORY 


REAK  VIEW  FROM:  A.  DISTANCE 


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MEMORIAL  WINDOW  IN  JONES  LIBRARY  HALL 


PROF.  DAYI8 


PROFHHBOK  OF  MUSIC 


The  increase  of  students  required  larger  chapel  space,  and  so  in  the 
summer  of  1906  that  part  of  the  building  was  enlarged  to  double  its  former 
capacity.  By  the  generous  cooperation  of  many  friends  a  large  pipe  organ,  to 
be  known  as  the  Schehlmann  Memorial  Organ,  in  honor  of  Prof.  Louis 
Schehlmann,  Professor  of  Music  in  the  College  from  1893  to  1903,  was  also 
installed  in  the  new  chapel. 


PROF.  ADAMS 

PROFESSOR  OF  PIANO  AND  ORGAN 


CHAPEL  STAGE 


INTERIOR  OF  CHAPEL 


The  summer  of  1906  was  made  yet  more  busy  by  the  erection  of 
a  large  steam  laundry  on  the  college  grounds,  which  has  proven  a  great 
comfort  and  service.  Thus  in  one  year  four  large  new  buildings  were 
added  and  the  chapel  doubled  in  size.  It  is  easy  to  see  that  such  rapid 
development  created  a  spirit  of  enthusiasm  among  the  supporters  of  the 
college.  This  was  stimulated  by  equally  striking  progress  in  other  lines. 
The  faculty  kept  pace  with  the  increase  in  equipment.  Professor 
after  professor  was  added,  and  the  curriculum  was  enriched  with  addi¬ 
tional  elective  courses. 

The  college,  too,  began  to  be  known  abroad,  and  the  appreciation 
of  outside  educators  increased  the  confidence  of  friends  at  home.  The 
action  of  the  Carnegie  Foundation  in  placing  Randolph-Macon  Woman’s 
College  on  its  accepted  list  upon  the  formal  report  of  its  committee  that 


LAUNDRY 

“Randolph-Macon  Woman’s  College  has  maintained  entrance  requirements  which  are  quite  equal  to  those 
in  the  best  colleges  for  women  in  other  sections  of  the  country,  and  its  buildings,  equipment  and  endowment 
measure  up  to  the  Neiv  York  requirements  for  colleges ” — 

gave  strong  endorsement  to  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Education,  which  had  for  years  placed  it  in  the  “A” 
Division  of  Colleges.  This  was  followed  by  the  statement  of  the  New  York  Department  of  Education  that — 

"The  highest  registration  of  any  of  the  women’s  colleges  by  this  department  has  been  accorded  Randolph- 
Macon.” 

These  reports  established  the  educational  standing  of  the  college  by  the  verdict  of  the  highest  expert  authori¬ 
ties,  and  gave  to  every  student  added  dignity. 

Such  is  the  history  of  the  past  fourteen  years.  It  has  wrought  a  college  strong  and  progressive,  and  a  faculty 
and  student  body  full  of  enthusiasm  and  confidence  in  the  future. 


THE  COLLEGE  GUARD 


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LOCATION 


Randolph  -  Macon  Woman’s 
College 

stands  thus  as  a  representa¬ 
tive  of  the  South  among  the 
fifteen  colleges  for  women  in 
the  United  States,  which  are 
classified  in  “  Division  A  ”  by 
the  United  States  Bureau  of 
Education.  It  is  situated  at 
Lynchburg,  in  Piedmont  Vir¬ 
ginia,  in  a  beautiful  park  of 
fifty  acres,  extending  from 
Rivermont  Ave.  to  the  James 
River. 


This  is  the  choice  residence  section  of  the  State — picturesque,  healthful  and  of  inspiring  beauty. 
Lynchburg  is  sheltered  by  protecting  mountains  on  the  north  and  west,  so  that  the  winter  temperature 
is  the  same  as  that  of  points  much  further  south,  Lynchburg  being  generally  on  the  isothermal  line  with 
Charlotte,  N.  C.,  Spartanburg,  S.  C.,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Meridian,  Miss.,  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  and  Fort  Worth, 
Texas. 

Water  Supply. — The  prime  importance  of  pure  drinking  water  has  been  fully  recognized  by  the 
city  of  Lynchburg.  Our  water  is  brought  from  a  mountain 
source  22  miles  distant.  It  is  of  finest  quality. 

The  average  temperature  for  December,  January  and 
February  for  the  last  33  years  was  38°  Fahr. 

Winding  through  the  campus,  picturesque  with  dell 
and  copse  and  open  vistas,  are  walks  aggregating  two  miles 
or  more,  giving  exercise  in  protected  seclusion. 

The  tennis  and  basket-ball  grounds  are  usually  open 
for  play  until  Christmas.  There  are  generally  about  two 
weeks  of  snow  with  its  accompanying  fun. 

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fOSsa 


PEDLAR  RIVER  DAM,  SOURCE  OF  CITY  WATER  SUPPLY 


PLAYING  IN  SNOW 


Three  trunk  lines  supply  twenty-two  passenger 

trains,  daily,  to  the  city.  Telephone  and 

telegraph  lines  connect  the  college  office  with 
the  business  world. 


BOAT  HOUSE 


The  James  River  furnishes  a  four-mile 

boating  reach  of  smooth  water,  and  the  College 

Boating  Club  has  its  house  and  boats  at  the  north 
end  of  Campus-neck. 


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STARTING  OFF 


DAILY  LIFE 


The  theory  upon  which  the  college  is  organized,  is  that  a  college  edu¬ 
cation  is  of  great  worth  and  should  demand  the  student's  purposeful  and 
persistent  effort.  We  assume  that  education  thus  pursued  as  a  business  should 
claim  seven  and  a-half  hours  daily  for  the  six  week  days,  or  forty-five  hours 


BIOLOGICAL  LECTURE  ROOM 


BIOLOGICAL  LABORATORY 


per  week  of  real  effort  for  thirty-six  weeks  each  year,  exclusive  of  holidays. 
Of  these  forty-five  hours,  fifteen  are  assigned  to  recitation  and  thirty  to  prepa¬ 
ration.  Every  regular  student,  then,  is  assigned  to  five  classes,  each  meeting 
three  times  per  week,  or  equivalent  work.  A  student  will  therefore  usually 
have  three  recitations  to  prepare  each  day. 


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Besides  this  are  the  regular  gymnasium  and  other  recreative 
exercises,  to  which  two  hours  daily  are  allotted.  These  may  be  di¬ 
vided  between  gymnasium  drill,  tennis  playing,  boating,  walking 
and  basket  ball  or  other  exercises. 


OUT-DOOR  EXERCISES 


GYMNASIUM 


A  BASKET-BALL  CLASS  CONTEST 


BATTLE 


VICTORY 


THE  HOMES 


There  are  two  separate  dormitories,  East  and  West  Halls, 
identical  in  construction  and  accommodating  one  hundred  stu¬ 
dents  each.  On  the  upper  floors  of  the  main  building  (in  the 
center)  are  rooms  for  two  hundred  students.  These  are  all  con¬ 
nected  by  a  corridor  and  colonnades  extending  from  end  to  end, 
six  hundred  and  seventeen  feet  in  a  straight  line,  and  forming  a 
most  striking  and  picturesque  feature  of  the  buildings. 

Four  round-trips  through  this  hall  make  nearly  a  mile  walk 
Each  of  the  three  dormitories  has  its  own  dining-room,  pan¬ 
try,  cold-storage  room  and  kitchen.  These  are  under  the  super¬ 
vision  of  the  Head  Housekeeper,  a  person  of  importance  upon 
whose  superior  ability  and  skill  much  of  the  daily  comfort  of  the 
household  depends. 


DR.  MARTIN 

HBAD  OF*  BAST  HALL. 


DR.  LANK 

HBAD  OF*  WEST  HALL 


— 


SCENE  IN  GRAND  CORRIDOR,  017  FEET  LONG 


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Assistant  housekeepers  of  experience  have  direct  charge  of  the  service  in  East  and  West  Halls. 

Each  building  has  its  own  infirmary,  its  official  head,  its  matron  and  chaperone.  The  college  physician,  Dr. 
A.  W.  Terrell,  goes  the  rounds  of  the  college  each  morning,  and  is  also  ready  to  respond  to  call  by  telephone  when¬ 
ever  need  may  arise. 


Dr.  Terrell  has  his  private 
hospital  in  Lynchburg,  and 
can  supply  trained  nurses  at 
once  if  needed. 


SCENE  IN  WINTER 


MRS.  BLACKWELL 


The  intellectual  atmosphere  at  R.-M. 
W.  C.  is  particularly  inspiring  not  only 
because  of  the  scholarship  of  the  faculty, 
but  because  its  body  of  students  is  also 
select.  The  high  entrance  requirements 
exclude  children  and  other  persons  unpre¬ 
pared  for  true  college  work,  and  repel 
t  riflers.  Many  of  those  who  enter  are  star 
graduates  of  high  schools  and  full  of  ambi¬ 
tion  for  scholarship.  In  such  company 


Dr.  I'ATTILLO 

CHAIRMAN  OF  FACULTY 


THE  FACULTY 

each  student  is  stirred  to  do  her  best,  and  the  habit  of  energetic  and  methodical  application  is  soon  formed. 

The  college  provides  a  course  of  instructive  lectures,  free  to  students,  by  attraftive  speakers  on  Literature, 
Science,  Philosophy,  Art  and  Music,  and  artists  of  highest  rank  seek  to  put  Lynchburg  on  their  programs.  There  is 
abundant  stimulus  to  literary  and  artistic  excellence. 


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COLLEGE  IvIDS  IN  CAMPUS  NOOK 


COLLEGE  SPIRIT 

There  is  something  distinctive  about  the  spirit  of  R.-M.  W.C.  students.  First,  there  is  great 
loyalty  and  enthusiasm.  This  is  due  partly  to  admiration  for  the  standard  of  admission  ;  it  is  an 
achievement  and  an  honor  to  be  admitted  as  a  student ;  and  partly  to  the  largeness  of  college 
life,  its  broadness,  liberality  and  freedom  from  espionage  and  petty  restrictions.  Students  feel 
that  they  are  respected  and  trusted.  Their  participation  in  the  government  through  their  College 
Committee,  the  increasing  influence  in  college  affairs  as  one  advances  from  class  to  class,  culmi¬ 
nating  in  the  dignity  and  real  authority  of  the  Senior,  stir  self-respect  and  develop  girls  into 
women. 

THE  ATMOSPHERE 

The  one  thing  that  seems  most  fixed  in  priority  of  importance  in  the  mind  of  the  President 
of  Randolph-Macon  Woman’s  College  is  the  maintenance  of  a  wholesome  and  invigorating  atmos¬ 
phere  of  scholarship,  culture  and  true  religion  without  sign  of  sectarianism.  Character  is  made 
the  chief  end  of  effort;  character  based  on  reverence  for  truth,  informed  by  love,  fortified  by  in¬ 
telligence  and  graced  by  habits  of  kindness  and  courtesy.  The  law  of  love  is  a  frequent  theme- 
Far  above  the  plane  of  physical  forces,  intellectual  power  is  throned  ;  but  above  this  is  another, 
a  higher  plane  of  life,  where  spiritual  power  works  its  miracles. 

The  highest  education  is  the  education  of  the  highest,  and  the  development  of  spiritual 
power  is  an  object  of  supreme  endeavor 


SOCIAL  LIFE 

Besides  the  set  exercises  of  the  college,  there  are  many  forms  of  voluntary  activity  among  the  students,  which  are  both  interesting  and  helpful. 

The  Franklin  and  Jefferson  Literary  Societies  vie  with  each  other  in  developing  debaters  and  essayists,  holding  one  meeting  each  week.  Sometimes  elabo¬ 
rate  plays  are  given  for  the  entertainment  of  the  college  body. 

The  college  classes  give  receptions  to  their  affiliates  and  the  various  sororities,  and  ribbon  societies  provide  many  occasions  of  social  reunion. 


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Indeed,  with  three  hundred  and  fifty  young  women  of  congenial 
tastes,  living  in  close  touch  with  each  other,  there  is  always  something 
attractive  in  hand.  The  college  life  is  full  of  activity  and  interest. 

And  these  are  girls  you  want  to  know.  They  come  from  the 
most  influential  families,  chiefly,  as  yet,  of  the  South  ;  they  are  homo- 


COLLEGE  CLANSMEN 


geneous,  refined,  thoughtful,  ambitious  ;  in  a  word,  superior.  Nowhere  else  than  in  such 
a  college  will  a  young  woman  ever  meet  and  be  intimately  associated  with  so  many  helpful 
and  inspiring  comrades.  It  is  worth  while  to  be  of  such  a  body. 


A  “  SPREAD” 


The  serious  side  of  college  life  is  seen  in  the  class-room,  where  steady  diligence 

and  hard  study  find  their  stimulus  and  reward.  There  the  student  meets  teachers 

enthusiastic  and  capable  to  inspire  and  direct  their  efforts.  We  think  that  there  is, 

after  all,  a  royal  road  to  knowledge,  and  our  teaching  motto,is:  “Learning  made 

interesting  is  learning  made  easy.”  But,  be  it  easy  or  hard,  it  is  worth  all  the  effort 
it  may  cost. 


A.  NEW  CLASS  ROOM 


Prof.  SHARP 

LATIN 


Prof.  ARMSTRONG 

ENGLISH 


Dr.  DORTER 

PHYSIC'S 


Dr.  BLACKWELL 

ENGLISH  LITER  A  TURK 


DR.  CAMPBELL 

GERMAN 


DR.  COLTON 

FRENCH  AND  SPANISH 


In  addition  to  the  Literary  Courses  leading  to  the  A.  B.  degree,  it  will  be  seen  by  the  catalogue  that  the  College  offers  strong  and  extensive  work 
in  Music  and  in  Art.  Prof.  Davis,  Director  of  the  Department  of  Music,  has  been  presented  on  page  io.  The  Head  of  the  Art  Department  is  here  intro¬ 
duced,  and  a  section  of  the  main  studious  shown  in  the  accom¬ 
panying  cut.  The  department  has  attained  distinction  by  the 
work  of  its  students. 


ART  STUDIO 


Cupples  Peets,  Ed.  Heliantlius 


PROGRAM  OF 
A  DAY 


7.00  a.m.  Rising  Bell 
7.45-8.30  Breakfast 

8.45  Chapel 
9  a.  m.-i.  10  p.  m, 

Recitations 
i.io-r.55  p.  m. 

Dinner 

I-55'3-35  Recitations 
3.35-6  Games  and 
Gymnasium 

6.30- 7  Supper 

7-7.30  Social  Meetings 

7.30- 10.30  Study 

10.45  Lights  out 


/**  MONG  the  student  activities  of  the  College  are  the  monthly  ]  ublication  of  the 
'Al  College  Magazine,  “The  Tattler,”  and  the  production  of  the  College  Annual, 
“  The  Helianthus."  These  give  full  employment  to  the  literary  and  artistic 
talent  of  the  student  body. 


Lucy  Moore,  Editor  Tattler 


TYPICAL  INCIDENTS 

or  first  ten  wrCKs  of  1906 

Sept  12  Session  Opened 

14  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Reception 
“  15  Organization  of  Liter¬ 

ary  Societies 

22  Seniors  Take  Sophs, 
on  Hay  Ride 

29  Juniors  Receive  Fresh¬ 
men 

Oct.  2  Dr.  Janvier  Talks  on 
India 

6  222  Reception 

18  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Arnold 
Entertain  Seniors 

20  “ ’Op  -  o’ -  Me  -  Thumb 
Entertainment  for 
Student  Body 

24  Alabama  Club  Enter¬ 
tained 

27  Dr.  Castle  of  Harvard 
Lectured  on  Art 

31  Hallowe’en  Frolic 

Nov.  2  Performance  of 
“Everyman” 

5  Gadski  Concert 

17  Senior  Banquet 

21  Musical  Recital  by 
Students 

29  Thanksgiving  Dinner, 
Speeches,  &c. 


STUDENT’S  ROOM 


HERE  WORTH  AND  WORK  AND  TALENT  REIGN 


Perhaps  nowhere  else  than  in  such  a  college  does  a  student  stand  so  completely  on  her  own  merits  and  force.  Character  and  ability  go  to  the  front,  and 
adventitious  advantages  are  of  little  value  if  unsustained  by  personal  worth.  One  of  the  songs  sung  on  class  night  by  the  class  of  1907  will  illustrate  this  demo- 
cratic  sentiment: 


r.  Oh  !  Miss  Longpurse  to  College  came , 
She  did ,  she  did. 

Arabella  Marie  was  her  Christian  name , 
( Stupid  !  stupid  ! ) 

Her  dress  was  rich ,  her  diamonds  rare. 
And  she  stared  a  very  superior  stare. 
But  cash  couldn’t  buy  capacity  there. 
Nor  elect  to  the  Upper  Ten. 

She  stared  a  very  superior  stare. 

But  was  not  of  our  Upper  Ten. 


3.  Miss  Steptoe  Style  \ would  College  try  ; 

Oh  my  l  oh  my  l 

With  skirt  en  train  and  pompadour  high. 

So  high  !  so  high  ! 

She  was  so  swell  that  she  caught  a  dude  beau. 
The  dirt  and  the  fop  made  quite  a  brave  show. 
But  real  heart  she  had  none,  and  so 
She  was  not  of  our  Upper  Ten  ; 

For  skirt  en  train  and  pompadour 
Don't  elect  to  our  Upper  Ten. 


4.  Oh  !  little  Miss  Honest  to  College  came. 

She  did,  she  did. 

And  nobody  bothered  to  know  her  full  name. 
The  kid,  sweet  kid. 

She  was  just  “  Little  Nell,"  our  College  pearl. 
She  rv as  student  and  lady  and  jolly  good  girl. 
And  she  curled  her  exams,  a  beautif  ul  curl. 

She’s  the  sort  for  our  Upper  Ten. 

She’s  a  princess  in  soul  and  fit  for  an  earl. 
And  she  leads  our  Upper  Ten. 


2.  Miss  Antique  Pride  to  College  came, 

{Big-wig !  big- wig!) 

Van  Buy  ter-  Lee-  Fairfax  she  hyphened  her  name, 
A  png!  a  prig! 

They  were  clever  folk  in  the  far  away. 

But  the  family  force  didn’t  last  to  her  day. 

And  haughty  mien  and  snobbish  way 
Don’t  elect  to  our  Upper  Ten. 

She  hyphened  her  name  in  a  lordly  way. 

But  was  not  of  our  Upper  Ten.  * 


5.  Now  hear  me,  all  ye  student  maids. 

Oh  hear  !  oh  hear  ! 

Show,  Pride  and  Style  are  sorry  jades 
Up  here,  up  here. 

Leave  all  such  baggage  on  the  train. 
Bring  Truth  and  Love ,  Ambition,  Brain, 
Do  all  your  work  with  might  and  main. 
And  you’ll  be  Upper  Ten. 

Here  Worth  and  Work  and  Talent  reign. 
And  make  our  Upper  Ten. 


LITTLE  WELL 


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To  all  right-minded  and  ambitious  young  women  to  whom  such  opportunities  and  surroundings  are  attractive,  we  give  hearty  welcome,  generous  confidence 
and  large  liberty.  Our  utmost  endeavors  shall  be  exerted  for  their  welfare  and  happiness. 

FINIS 


ORIGINAL  DRAWING  OF  AN  ART  STUDENT 


